Ml I III* I II I Hit.) mp ^^'in% '"J^T^r 4 SHE STOOPS TO CONQUEB ails you?" cried Ellen turn. "Alas, Romantic Stories From the Sea. Allllt Deborall and Sam Wad- such a relish that Sam was glad HOW TO LIVEXONG. I have carried this to too cruel an extremity!" enough to get away. He was afraid Cape May Letter. ley. she murmured, as Henry she might conclude to bestow upon Ellen Vernon was the only daughter The sea breeze has quite a romantic besan slowly to open his eyes. flMi CtfftrM Pafraed y People WnHTS Attala, him the salutary lesson which she had of a rich gentleman who dwelt in a song to sing this week. A few days The letter was, in fact, an excellently ed Great Age. promised to give -"Flipper," as-she St. Nicholas. country mansion, buried in the midst ago there arrived at the New Colombia well written but formal proposition A few days ago the hero f the hour called him. "The good lands! what's that!" excitedly a pleasant-faced young man, who registered of stately woods. for her hand, and as the writer was Sam hurried home as fast as hecould. in France was M. Chevreirir who has cried frightened Aunt Deborah. as Joseph B. Logan, Minnesota. not ten years the lady's senior, though His mother, a pale, delicate She was eminently beautiful, highly just completed the first century of his The day tollowing another entry of a cold and pompous disposition, woman, whose wan features and sunken accomplished, and possessed a good existence and a fete in his honor was was made in the same book: C. G. Logan, there could not be any very serious Aunt Deborah might well exelaim in eyes, showed the effects of too hard and kind heart. Her being an heiress Baltimore. As chance had it the celebrated-in the botanical gardens of obstacle in the way. It was to Henry work, heard his simple tale, wiped surprise. For as she sat knitting two gentlemen bearing the same name Morland like the receiving of a death also added to her great attractions. away his tears, and encouraged him Paris. To what does this eminent quietly and humming a quaint old were placed at one table in the diningroom, blow a sense of duty, of propriety, in his resolve to pay for the damage She loved a poor cousin, Henry Morland man attribute his great age? To the tune of long ago, one she had learned of manliness, came to his aid, however and the other guests of the he had done. From that day Sam byname.who.at an early age.had action of coffee in preventing waste of and, with a desperate effort he as a childC-r-rash! bang! came a house as they passed through were attracted began to be very diligent, and to earn been left an orphan, and whom Ellen's system, and to his moderation in eating. said: "IIcongratulate you, Miss by a curious resemblance between pennies in every honest way possible stone into the room, shivering the Vernon." father, Sir John Vernon, had brought to him. And every week he carried the two apparent strangers as window pane, just missing the swinging "I won't be congratulated," broke some small amount to Atint Deborah. they sat side by side. Gradually the up and educated. From their earliest In addition to coffee, he has indulged lamp in the hallway making an in Ellen, "and you are not in earnest "That boy has some good hi him," objects of the oft-repeated glances began years, at intervals, such as his holidays in warm baths. He has always, ugly scar 6n the cabinet, and breaking when you say so and I won't be called she said when be had brought his to gaze at one another, each considering and college vacations, the young it is reported, had a repugnance to Miss Vernonyou may as well say first installment. And thoueh she into fragments a handsome vase. the other the cause of the curiosity. people had been, in a manner,brought fish and to vegetables but he likes onions Lady Beazley, of Beazley hall, at once grew more kind toward him every time When they left the table they Then, as if satisfied with the mischief its odiousits shameful!" and she he came, occasionally civingjhim a glass and fruits.* Wine he has never up together, and as their ages were almost both went directly to the office and it had done, it rolled lazily across the walked impatiently about him. There of milk, a sandwich or a cake, she rarely tasted. But other things besides diet alike, and Harry was a wellmade, with one accord reached for the register floor, and finally stopped under the was a pause on his part, for he knew failed to warn him against the influence book. At this juncture Mr. Foss, have contributed toM-Chevreul'slong handsome fellow, possessing not what to say. table, an inert, jagged bit of granite. of that "Flipper" boy. the clerk, simplified matters by introducing life. considerable mental and personal attractions, "Why don't you speak to me, Hen- His young companions laughed at Aunt Deborah, as the stonepursued them. An eager volley of questions First, he had a good beginning. Hi3 ry?" began Ellen. "Have you no feel- him for paying his money to Aunt their assimilation of taste, its reckless course, placed her hands followed, and suddenly there was ancestors were healthy and long-lived ing?" Deborah, and called him a coward for as much as anything else, had contributed a clasping of hands and a simultaneous over her head, and shrank back into moreover henever found money "hard "You have a proposal," said Henry, not running away when they ran but to waken up feelings between exclamation of "brother!" and to get and heavy to hold." If not her chair, a frightened and unwilling "that many a lady in the country all they said did not turn him from arm-in-arm the two walked quickly them that neither had as yet given born with a silver spoon in his mouth, would envy. I should wish you wedded his purpose. witness to the destruction of her property. into an adjoining parlor. The story he was certainly well provided for, vent to in words. to a man you love for, whatever One evening he went with a cheerful It was quite distressing. Besides was soon told. At the ages of eight and he seems to have had little trouble you may think of me, I cannot forget heart to pay the last installment. As Henry loved his beautiful and the nervous shock, there was the in the orld. and ten respectively, their parents that we have been children together, he passed the window of the sitting wealthy cousin to distraction. But But M. Chevreul does not dogmatize having died, the two brothers were broken window there was the cabinet and your happiness has always been room he glanced in. There sat Aunt like some other men who have put under the guardianship of an uncle, the sense of his own dependence kept the object of my thoughts." Deborah, earnestly knitting. The showing a great white dent that could thank you!" achieved lenth of days. A few seem but for various reasons they both lamp light fell upon her sober face Henryr him from advancing his claims. "Thank you, not be easily removed and there, too, to think their own method of living became discontented, and the elder ran and Sam wondered if she ever looked and with a frank,unconscious and unspeakably Sir John Vernon had the most perfect was the vase she had kept so many and working the best for all other away, since which time nothing had really smiling and pleasant. "It tender manner, she laid confidence in Harry's honor. Not men. The Abbe Moigno, a famous long years, lying shattered and ruined been heard of him. The two men seemed doesn't seem as though she would be both hands upon his shoulders, and French scientist, for instance, exclaimed: thinking that there might bethe slightest so stiff with a fellow," he said to himself. positively overjoyed at the strange before her eyes. bent her deep, beautiful eyes upon his "How happy would those Then, in response to her "Como danger in permitting the young meeting, and. were objects of universal face. Aunt Deborah was one of the best be who should adopt my regime." He in," he entered the room and handed comment the whole evening as they people to be together, he continued to and most kind-hearted of women but It was next to impossible for anyone attributed his powers of work and his her the money. walked the porches arm-in-arm, eagerly she was human, and the sudden to resist the fascination of that regard them both with the same tender old age to abstinence from tobacco, "I believe that is all, ma'am," said conversing. havoo wrought by the missile exasperated glance, and Henry, attracted without eating little meat, to the habit of never solicitude as ever, as though they he. as well as frightened her. She the power of resisting, took her face in saying "I shall do," nor "lam doing," were in a manner brother and sister. "Yes, that pays the whole sum," rushed to the window and opened it in his hands and kissed her forehead. but "I have done," and to the fact i said Aunt Deborah "you have done It was "Leap-year," and the vacation time to see three or four boys scampering It recalled him to himself and the Fashion in Hair and Whiskers. that he added a drop of rum to his Avell." wh ich Henry spent at the hall down the street as fast as their sudden revulsion was absolute torture. coffee' "I am still very sorry I have troubled Ch icago Journal. proved on this occassion to be to him legs could carry them. The experience of M. Mignet, another you, and I hope you forgive me," "I learned my trade forty years ago a source of pain and agony. The "I cannot pretend to advise you in octogenarian, who was the oldest "Oh, you young scapegraces!" she he said. in Boston," said a leading barber to beauty of Ellen, her artlessness, her this matter, my sweet cousin," he began member of the French Academy, differs cried if I could once lay hold on you "I do, with all my heart," she said, me, as he trimmed my hair, "and it is affectionate manner, and her frankness, "but if you entertain the thought, slightly from the industrious' wouldn't I teach you a lesson!" earnestly. raised his affections to such a surprising how long a fashion in hair I trust you will be happy." savant. He ascribes his extreme old "Thank you," said Sam., ashestarted But the boys never stopped until height that the very excess of his or whiskers will last. Ten years is "I detest the man!" cried Ellen, age to sobriety in eating and drinking, out, picking his old hat from the they had disappeared around a friendly love magnified hi difficulties, and about as long as a fashion in coacs flinging away his hand angrily. "One the habit of long walks, constant and floor, where he had placed it on entering. corner. Aunt Deborah was so overcome made him look with a sensation can live, but in my business a style of would think that all were turned congenial work, early hours, and perfect by the accident, and so intent of fear upon his passion, hair or whiskers will last two or three against me." contentment with a small income. "Come back," said Aunt Deborah, upon watching the retreating boys to said Henry, Which once or twice prompted him to times as long. Take mustaches, for "Do not believe it/ "I've something more to say to you." whom she desired to teach a lesson, speak, and by consequence become an instance. They came in about twentyfive gravely. "And as this may be the Extraordinary are the reasons assigned With a startled look he turned into that she did not at first notice a barefooted Migrate to his benefactor, to whom he last interview" by some people for their great age. years ago. I can remember very the room. Aunt Deborah went to a lad, standing under the window owed everything in the world. He resolved "The last?" echoed Ellen. Referring to M. Chevreul, a Paris correspondent well when a mustache was regarded cabinet and unlocked it. She first on the pavement below, holding to die rather than to incur the says he can see no special as the badge of a fop, an idiot, or a "That we may have for years to took out a pair of new shoes, then a battered old hat in his hand, displeasure of his uncle, the sting of merit in a man's living 100 years. come, let us not part with a misunderstanding. gambler. It was as much as a man's half-a-dozen pairs of socks, some underclothing, and looking up at her with a scared his own reproaches, and the possible "The other day," he says, "I was Had my own prospects reputation wa3 worth to let the hair two nice shirts, a neat face and tearful eyes. rejection of his suit by Ellen. This shown an ancient angler who is 105 been different I should have found myself woolen suit, and lastly a good felt "Please, Miss," said the boy,tremulously. grow on his upper lip. But now everybody thought beyond all others was most years old, and who has been teasing in a condition toto advise you hat. wear them, and I am afraid I pregnant with pain. He therefore the gudgeons in the River Ranee for better." "Sam," said she to the astonished "Oh!" Who are you! Who threw will not live long enough to see them shunned her presence as much as he nearly a century past." lad, "I have taken your money, not that stone at my window?" called out go out. Anything to beat the barbers, "In what wav, Henry?" asked Ellen, could, and spent whole days in the library This worthy old Frenchman attributes because I wanted it, but because I Aunt Deborah, as she spied him. with an arch smile. brooding upon his lost prospects. you see. On the other hand his great age to fishing with wished to test you. I wished to see "Please, Miss," pbaded the boy, there is short hair. About the time "I cannot tell you now. Let it a rod and line, and says that it every whether you really meant to pay me. fumbling nervously his torn hat, "I mustaches came in long hair went out. suffice to say that my inability to do one would go a-fi&hing for a hundred That Flipper boy would never have threw it, but Ididn't mean to do it." Ellen noticed this change, and, with In those days everybody wore long aught prevents me from saying what years or so very few would die youngl done it, I am sure. You have done so a woman's tact, comprehended the "Didn't mean to do it, eh?" replied I would. Poor and dependent as I hair, and what is more, they curled it. Lord Marchmont, the friend of the well in bringing me your little savings reason of it. With a mixture of grief Aunt Deborah, fiercely. "I suppose am, with a debt of gratitude to pay, Yes, sir, I used to keep my curlinglrous poet Pope, lived to the age of 86. In that I have learned to like you very and pleasure she engaged herself in the the stone picked itself up and pitched which I would not have lessened by a always around, and it was just reply to a question as to his habits, much. Now I wish to make you a execution of a plan, which was that itself through my glass!" sentiment of false pride, I must tell as common with men as it is with he explained thatmaxi he hadolaid whicdownhh present of these articles. In thepocket of awakening his jealousy, and driving "I was going to throw it down the you that for my own happiness, my oni1 women to have their hair curled. when young of this jacket you will find the money him into a confession to which she street, but Bill Philper touched my own advancement, I must make a rigidly adhered, and to which he attributed The fashion of clipping the hair short you have paid me. I wouldn't was only too willing to listen. A rumor arm, and it turned and hit your win- bold step in the world and fight much of his good health. except on the top of the head, called take a cent of it. It is yours. You was accordingly spread that a dow," he explained. for my own share of good or ill fortune, What was that? To rise with the the Pompadour, is only about ten must keep working and adding to it, sporting baronet of the neighborhood There was an air of frankness and as rate wills it." lark? No. To go to bed sober? No. so that you can soon help your mother years old, though the clippers were had not only determined on wooing the truth about the boy, and the fact a light To live on one meal a day? No. It "But what necessity is there for more. Go to work now invented tnree years earlier. The young lady but also of winning her,havmg that he had not run away like the was, "never to mix his wines." this?" demanded Ellen, with a touch heart, and grow up a true and an laid a very heavy wager upon the scheme of brushing hair by steam others (whom, somehow, Aunt Deborah of her old impatience. "Does not my Not less curious the reason honest man. Tell your mother that result. Henry's passion wa3 instantly held chiefly responsible for the started about twenty-five years ago, father love you? Has he not made given by a certain Canon Bleadon, I say she had a fine son." aroused,and rage, and vexation and outrage), caused her to relent a little and was given up about ten years ago, your future prospects his study? Besides who reached 100 years by the simple love by turns tormented him. He toward him. In making this speech, Aunt Deborah's on account of the numerous accidental it will be necessary for you to precaution of wearing an overcoat! It would have called the insolent rival features relaxed into a pleasant "Come here," she said, after eyeing injuries inflicted on the customers." attend, as a near relative, at my bri- is recorded by another centenarian out, having accused hi3 cousin of playing smile, and Sam. smiled, too, and was him closely for a moment. dal." that he had never eaten cold meat, false, forgetting that she had never so pleased that he could hardly utter The lad hesitated but summoning and by this abstinence he had saved How to Begin a Letter. plighted faith to him he accused A faint smile crossed his pale lips as his thanks. all his courage, he went up the steps, his digestion from premature exhaustion. the world of unkindness, his uncle of he said, "In this, without accusing Boston Record. "And mind you," continued she, and soon stood in her presence. tyranny in fact, like a lover utterly me of unkindness, you must hold me suddenly, changing the current of his "Do you see that," she said, pointing It is maintained with a good deal From the Land of Cakes we have beside himself, he would have been excused. I can make some sacrifice of thoughts, don't associate with that at the window"and that?t" (at of vigor by some newspaper writers, (a the equally interesting, but equally unsatisfactory, guilty of a thousand extravagances, feeling, but this is beyond my power." 9 Flipper boy!" the cabinet)"and that chiefly women who have submerged explanations of long life. but the intolerable idea came, what Will you, if you please, speak plainer, "Please, ma'am," said Sam., feeling broken vase))"and that?" (at the all their life in their profession and A Scotch newspaper recently announced was he to her, or she to him? What and tell me what you mean and a twinge of conscience that his former stone.) "Now. isn't that a fine performance?" who have left themselves very few individual the death iof four centenarians in tight had he to dictate or to question? why you cannot do this?" asked Ellen, companion should bear so much of relations, that nobody writes Morayshire. Of one it is stated, "During and thus he was as far off as ever. with raockgravity "for," thought the blame, "you have been very kind "I am very sorry," said the boy, letters nowadays. Men do not write her long life she took on other she, "he will tell me now that he loves to me, but Bill Philper didn't know the tears welling into his eyes again. Ellen found that her plan of awakening medicine than sulphur and infused letters, it is true, unless they are in me." the stone would turn, as it did, and his jealousy had been effectual He looked ruefully about at the blackberry leaves, to which she attributed that brief period which makes up the break your window." enough, but that no other result attended damaged articles, and glanced at the "Every sentiment which makes a her perfect state of health existence of the suitor. But women '|Then why did he run away?" inquired it. She also fonnd that her stone, wishing heartily that he had man respect himselfevery impulse of and longevity." have by no means given over entirely Aunt Deborah, somewhat fiercely. poor cousin's sadness and dejection never seen it. honor will tie my tongue forever on There is one case on record which the art epistolary, and there is a word "It's quite proper that you should increased, and its melancholy began to "Now, what's to be done about it?" that head. Spare me then, Ellen," he would seem to prove that even dirty try and excuse him, Sam. but I to be said about the form of the modern communicate itself to her. asked she. added mournfully. "I cannot prolong hahits are not unfavorable to longevity. should like to teach him a good les- It was therefore absolutely necessary "I don't know, ma'am," said he, letter of intimate friendship. It this interview. I am so little tutored An Edinburg paper of February, son." for the happiness of both that very ill at ease. "I will try to pay in disguising my feelings, that I must is scarcely worth while in this day of 1771, reports the death of a Montrose "Youyouhave taught me a good matters should be brought to a crisis you for it." say I regret this, while I trust it will expressed cordiality to begin a letter woman in her 107th year "Her neighbors lesson," said Sam., with a blushing for, in addition to the annoyance she "What can you pay, Ishould like to eventually be for the security of your for a person to whom one writes very say that &he had not washed her face "and IIthank you very much felt at Henry's silence, the marriage know?" she said, glancing at hispatched own happiness." often in the conventional manner. lace tor thirty or foity years before for it." which was rumored in jest began to coat and trousers and his torn "You loveme, Henryyou love me!" The division of the paper and the "My her death." Aunt Deborah smiled benignly again, take an aspect of serious earnestness, hat. cried Ellen, catching him by the arm. dear friend" on a separate line does Some people are always complaining and warmly bidding Sam. to come and a proposal having actually come, from "I sell papers," said he, "and I can Ellen felt that he trembled from very well for all the courtesies of correspondence of the moral degeneracy of our see her, she let him out at the door. She a rich and estimable man in every pay you a little on it every week." head to foot. She saw that he turned which are outside the pale times. Obviously they have never felt very happy as Sam. disappeared way, to her father, which proposal "What's your name?" she asked. as pale as death but the firm compression read the social history of their own of close ties of family or affection. down thestreet, and he was very hap-i Sir John Vernon had just communicated "Sam. Wadley," answered the boy. of those pallid lips told her country. Not half a centary ago But it is coming to be more the fashion, py as he hurried home with his great to her. "Have you a father?" that nothing could wring forth a confession drunkenness was encouraged by all, born of kindliness, to begin with bundle, and told his mother all about Holding in her hand the letter which "No ma'am," replied Sam. "he's- from him. She knew that his classes. An. old adage saysHe it, which made that good woman very a cheerful, informal sentence in which had been sent to Sir John, she one dead." lofty nature cherished a sense who goes to bed, and goes to -feed sober,. happy, too. So they were very happy ^morning sought the library, an her the "My dear" or the name of the "Have you a mother?" of honor bordering upon the Falls as- the leaves do, and dies JI October} all around. And it all came about heart beat a little strongly as she reflected "Yes, ma'am." person to whom one is writing appears. chivalric. He was silent. But- be who goes to bed, and goes to bed because Sam. had stood, up like a, that she was about to press "What does she do?" continued There are, of course, grades of intimacy "Must I, then, speak?" said Ellen. mellow, brave boy to confess his wrong, which 'her cousin, so that he should either Aunt Deborah. "Is the order of things to be reversed?" in which this way is impossible for Lives.as-he ought to do, and Jies a good is always manly, and had offered reparation be compelled to declare his passion at "She sews, and I help her all I can. And she smiled radiantly. "It is well fellow. example, it should never be used in for it, which is always right, once or give her up forever. selling papers." for my maidenly character that leap In the-good old times this adageappears addressing a person much older than and had gone torward, in ,spite of the "Ellen,"' said he, "let me beseech you "How can you pay me anything year entitles ladies to a privilege to have been regarded as gospel one'b self, or a younger person who taunts of* his companions, denying to tell me what is the cause of this then?" which they may use uncensured. Henry, by all classes, and, in spite of hard has not the power to recognize the himself the pleasures and comforts in agitation you alarm mewhy are you "Please ma'am, I'll tell mother all my dear consin, I love you! Must drinking many tipplers- lived to old delicacy of relation indicated by ite order to do that which he knew to be so moved?" about it, and she'll be willing for me I sue in vain? Will you not love your age. use. right, which is always heroic. "Do you behold this letter?" asked to pay you all I make." pretty cousin Ellen?" There is now in England a famous Ellen, tapping it, accompanying the "well now, we'll see if you are a boy The astonishment of the youth was New York minister wr-*x began life aa action with a mysterious look. to keep his word," said Aumt Deborah. Gratifying to the Bridegroom. only equalled by his joy. With the a blacksmith In Yorkshire. This is Life A Sing Sing.. Henry glanced upon it with increased most unfeined rapture beaming out in the Rev. Robe rt ColIyer, who. aya Lewi3ton Journal. Boston.Journal. misgiving, but merely said, "Yes." "How much must I pay?" Sam inquired every feature, he could barely articulate that the way the age of 80 ia to be The habit of half reading anything An interesting and very inexpensive "And can you guess its contents? No, anxiously. her name. "Ellen!" temperate, vivtuous, and to "keep on may be dangerous, especially if one experiment in convict education has you cannot you who have ceased to "Let me see." Aunt Deborah put "Well, sir?" the snnny sir'le of the hedge." Heia proposes to act on the information be interested in me, cannot divine its on her spectacles and made a ciitical been, made during the last three years, himself considerably over 60, and declares "Are you jesting with me? Do not thus gained, but it is seldom that so nature." survey of the room. "Windowfifty at Sing Sing Prison, under the management that he has never been, ill for a torture my heart, already overwrought/' unfortunate an accident occurs as one cents vaseone dollarI wouldn't "Spare me the reproches that I have of Warden Brush. Scarcely day. He attributes his good' health reported by the Phillips Phonograph. have it broken for five? That'll doone not merited, Ellen," said Henry, in a to the /fact that be was reared "Cousin Henry, I love you," was any one is discharged from, Sing. Sing That paper was once guilty of the dollar and a half. I shant charge tone so mournful as to make her regret on oatmeal and milk, and: he claims her reply "will you not love me in now who cannot read, write, and cast you for the dent in the furniture." the words she had used in a mere blunder of inserting a marriage notice to have 'never had indigestion in his return?" uo simple accounts. Each class meets jest. "If you knew all," he continued, "I'll try to pay you something on it in the space alloted to the deaths. life. "Now, and for ever!" exclaimed he, three times a week for an hour and a "you would be inclined to be more every week," said Sam. "There are A careless Spiritualist medium in looking clasping her to his breast. "As I have On the other hand, Carlyle lived to half of instruction, and the convicts lenient towards m*. I do not say some days when I don't make anything over the obituary notices for a always fondly loved you." be 83., had the dyspepsia all his life, are allowed lights in their rooms until pity," he added, with a bitter emphasis but when I do I'll save it foi "Then let us go in and see papa," list of spirits who should appear at and never Jived on "the sunny side of 9 o'clock for additional study. "because there is something debasing you.'' said Ellen. "I am sure of his consent, the next seance hit upon the name of th hedge'* at all.English Ex. Beading, writing, and arithmetic are in the sentiment. But to end this, "Very well," said Aunt Deborah, and what is more, I was of age this particular lady, Mrs. Octavia C. the subjects principally taught, and t unprofitable as it is, tell me what all "you may go now." yesterday, and no one seems to have men A Convincing Arsru Russell of Phillips. A few days later this signifiessuspense is agonywhat there is no difficulty in finding instructors He thanked her and went slowly taken the slightest notice of it, so the bride was astonished to see in a "K410W dat onreligious niggah 'Lias is that paper?" out, while Aunt Deborah began to among the higher grades oi that if he should be inclined to object, Spiritualist paper that she had electrified Sno^grass?" pick upthe fragments strewn over the "Read it, and judge for yourself criminals. The effect these night I can act upon my own responsibili- a Boston audience by appearing Sho' nuff." floor. and as Ellen spoke she gave him the schools is seen not only in the giving ty." to them, though "with a condition dreaded letter. Hastily glancing over "Obi, wait a moment! shecrisd., Need we say the result? The same *K3ot converted de odder day." occupation to the minds of the prisoners arising from earth still clinging to her" MYou doan mean it! Who done it?" it, his countenance grew white as a Sam came back. day Sir Jo hn Vernon's consent ratified and imparting to them the elements and announcing that she had "safely sheet, and he felt himself about to "Take this stone out with you, and their loves, and a few weeks after "Absalom Jenkins. Then 'Lias got of a simple education, but in a reached a home, and met with kind faint from the deadly sickness that be careful what you do with it next beheld them happily wedded and the ter argifyin', an' 'Lias he says dar marked elevation in their morals. faces and loving welcome, and will be attacked him. He made a desperate time," she said, "By the way, if you festivities of that occasion will probably wa'nt no truf in de bible, and Abs'lom They are more tractable and more ar^. perhaps not only helpful to herself, effort to bear against it, but the internal wish to keep out of trouble, you'd be engraven in the chronicles of he say dey were, an' finally Abs'lom bitious, and are more easily influenced fight he had so long held had but also to the friends who remain on, better not keep company with that some country traditions when those convinced Mm." by thoughts of a better life. The prostrated his strength more than he earth." This report was no doubt Flipper boy"Aunt Deborah had a who gave rise to them are sleeping "Well, well! Ef dat doan beat all. entire expense of the introduction of thought, and he sank, with a groan, rather poor memory for names"ii I gratifying to the bridegroom, but how peacefully in the dust their lives having Ter think of 'Lias Snodgrass bein converted! the system has been, only ^75 for upon the chair. bad him, wouldn't Igive him a lesson!" glided away in the midst of peace must the medium have telfc when, she How did Absalom'vince'im?" books and slates. "For heaven's love, Henry, what and domestic felicity. She uttered the last sentence, with discovered her error? "Wid a raaaer."Merchant Traveler, 5s& s^ars